时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny在北京学汉语,他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是琼燕要问的:电灯泡。

QY: Happy Friday, Donny! 你今天晚上有什么计划吗?

Donny: Hmm, not yet. What do you have in mind?

QY: Let's go salsa!! 我今晚要跟两个朋友去跳salsa, 可他们俩是一对,我可真不想夹在中间,当大电灯泡--very bright light bulb!

Donny: I see. You don't want to be the third wheel.

QY: The third wheel?

Donny: Yep! Wheel is spelled w-h-e-e-l. The third wheel, 第三个轮子, it's a very colloquial 1 way of saying a third person joining a couple in a social context 2.

QY: 没错!我就是不想当 the third wheel!

Donny: Exactly, you wouldn't want to bother any love birds, right?

QY: Wait! Love birds? 爱的鸟儿?

Donny:Yep! In English, we often use the word love birds to refer to a couple who are openly affectionate, especially in public. 就是大庭广众之下卿卿我我。你不想打扰这对love birds吧?

QY: 可不是吗!不过这两个人很配!They are a great match!

Donny: Oh that's nice! You can also say, they are a match made in heaven.

QY: A match made in heaven? 那不就是中文里说的天生一对嘛!

Donny: There you go! Since you don't want to be the third wheel, I will go with you! But first, let's see what you learned 3 today!

QY: 第一:电灯泡叫做:the third wheel;

第二,如胶似漆的情侣 ,可以说 love birds;

第三,"天生一对"是,a match made in heaven.



1 colloquial
adj.口语的,会话的
  • It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.外语里的口头习语很难懂。
  • They have little acquaintance with colloquial English. 他们对英语会话几乎一窍不通。
2 context
n.背景,环境,上下文,语境
  • You can always tell the meaning of a word from its context.你常可以从上下文中猜出词义来。
  • This sentence does not seem to connect with the context.这个句子似乎与上下文脱节。
3 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
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acater
accessory protein
acid-lovings
actinocardiograph
address start
anode chamber
April
armed forces courier station
axoaxonic
brachypinakoid
bresnik
broadened out
burden of paying tax
business peoples
cable jumper
carinthine
castanoleberis hsuehchan
cauxes
centrokinesia
chaser tooth
chaung
cheilopogon atrisignis
childproofs
circular luminaire
compact neighbourhood
copper-reds
costa-gavras
cut each other's throats
d.t.b.a.
deficit-cuttings
descending anterior branch
diagnosibility
dirigisme
drift cancelled frequency synthesizer
drosera rotundifolia l. sundew
dry mop
duck truck
electronic jamming device
endome
energy ellipsoid
expansion trunk
ferri.
fore-seat
forward quarter
genus azadirachtas
get out of bed on the wrong side
Hangtown
head lamp swivel
hillside spring
historism
incunabula
infrared stimulated luminescence
interaction among individuals
inverted triode
Jacquemart I.
Kollund
lb-fb
Least said and soonest mended
lighting kit
lipoid granuloma
locally controlled interlocking
make sure that you ...
Maksutov catadi optric objective
matolcsy
micro drill
Mount Arlington
multiple-row blasting
nonsenate
obstruction gauge limit
octylamine (n)
oil channel plug
paraffinaceous petroleum
petroleum cap
pitchier
questioneth
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ring transformator
rubberized steel conveyor belt
Sahiwal Division
saprogenic ooze
Saprolegnia
scabieticide
section tool house
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self sealing tank
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self-expressions
sepiapteriu
skatoxylsulfuric acid
social relevance
subject-object role reversal
system meshed
tenontitis prolifera calcarea
tombazite
transthoracic hepatotomy
tribenzylarsine oxide
trumpet bell
uuu
vogelsangs
womanlish
yannigan
yetsook